tv News Weekly RT July 27, 2014 8:29am-8:45am EDT
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today i roll researcher. welcome back you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international now the palestinian group hamas has declared a new cease fire after israel promised to resume its ground sea bombardments on gaza the previous u.n. brokered humanitarian truce and needed one a barrel of rockets were fired by hamas into israeli territory and i asked and said no humanitarian ceasefire would be valid without israeli tanks withdrawing and ambulances being able to freely move around the garda but israel still insists it won't finish its operation until this demolish the underground tunnel networks has more from jerusalem. a must has declared a twenty four hour cease fire they are appealing to the united nations to put
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pressure on israel to accept this truce the israeli cabinet will meet to discuss the latest developments it follows a unilateral cease fire that was declared at midnight saturday by the israelis they say that they were prepared to adhere to a station of hostilities over the next twenty four hours but they then broke the cease fire citing hamas rocket fire as the reason they were there was a rocket fired from gaza at israel in the early hours of sunday morning several were intercepted over the. center of the country and they have been sirens sounding both in the same to and in the south of israel there was also an israeli soldier that was killed by a mortar shell not far from the israel gaza border that the israeli military fatalities to some forty three now one of this follows a ceasefire that was of zero on saturday by both sides that ceasefire was a u.n. brokered humanitarian truce and it enabled aid workers to bring much needed
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emergency supplies into the gaza strip as you know hospitals there for example has practically run out of medicine it was also a chance for people inside gaza to return to their homes to try and salvage what little they could to bury the dead and also to recover bodies we haven't yet had any official reaction from israel as to this latest cease fire put forward by have nots so we are waiting to hear what the israelis have to say but what they have said is that they believe that the number of rockets that hamas and islamic jihad have a beer disposal has decreased dramatically because it is lady operation and they also believe that the israelis will be forced to remain inside the gaza strip because they say militants in gaza will try to hold on to the remaining awesome though and extend the fighting in the gaza strip for quite some time so it certainly doesn't look as if the feeling on the ground is if we're going to see a cessation of hostilities any time soon. but our correspondent sent us a video taken at the heart of the worst hit areas in the strip be warned it
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contains some graphic images. well that's what we're doing now from we're going to move. on we're going to. now this is apparently show a man among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings and he's thought to be the target of israeli government fire the man appears to be searching for cover when a bullet hits him while he stretched out on the ground spoke to an eyewitness of the incident. with respects of the day all together there were four shots fired the first one missed him but remained it to be aimed for him the second one was fatal. which caused him to fall down a lot on the ground and the third one was i guess for them to make sure that they had got him basically he was as far as we are aware he was looking for his family
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he was frantic he was he was leading the way he was on the floor and he knew the area we had wanted to do was find is that i mean that's resulted in his death there was supposed to be a ceasefire as well however as we said into the region there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting this. israel says that incessant rocket fire from gaza jury in the truce caused it to breed launch its offensive my colleague paul scott spoke to poor person a spokesman of the israeli foreign ministry and he explained why his country isn't backing down. they say that all timothy's should be investigated and i agree and i'll tell you what we're going to discover we're going to discover that israel has taken unprecedented steps in in a very difficult circumstance to minimize and to avoid civilian casualties and we're going to discover that hamas evil machine with
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a killer strategy. is perpetrating war crime of the war crime of the war crime and that's what we're going to discover you say that israel is doing all it can to minimize civilian casualties are you doing enough for boys killed in a bitch we're hearing about civilians being killed every single day we said repetitively we said it also quietly through diplomatic channels quiet will be altered with quiet calm will be responded to with call this message was rejected out of hand we've been three cease fire proposals one by the egyptians one by the united nations one by the international committee for the red cross all three we accepted unconditionally we implemented them all three of which with the glib laws they couldn't care less attitude rejected and violated so i agree with you the this is a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas and the fragile truce has been folding from the outset with desperate calls from international diplomats for an end to the violence falling on deaf ears and as
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harry fear reports now international law proves to have no power in the raging onslaught in gaza. beit hanoun in gaza's north deserted after israeli tank shelling hits this united nations around school killing sixteen and injuring scores of others before the war northern residents had it tough enough recently they've been plunged into incredible danger they were relying on the un to shelter and protect their children now even that is no guarantee. as the red cross said they would move us but they didn't arrive instead israelis launched missiles at us after which we started looking for our children some were dead others wounded ambulances arrived and took four to six people we reached the hospital and then here where we look for our children it took four hours to find my son. one hospital room and one entire family caught up in
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a war from which they couldn't escape. eleven years old was one of those pierced by multiple pieces of shrapnel this family a one among over one hundred thousand who are currently sheltering with the u.n. we have informed the twelve times in full about this this call about its place how many people what is going on there. and everything the last time it was ten fifty five we called them and we ask them to give us a window of time so we can evacuated the displaced people who want to from going to be displaced. but the. fourteen year old fatima was in less pain than her sister. that's for the years said i was hallucinating and terrifying i started thinking of my father and screaming for my sisters and brothers i was afraid of what could have happened to them and then my sister contacted our brother it was
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horrible went to the school but what's all. this is that there was an explosion and . people started crying and same they lost their relatives in the jimmy and. they are criminals for this to happen to their children one could treat children like this each time they are hit by hamas rockets they get more violent with us civilians in. this area remains dangerous most homes are of course evacuated but the hospital near the shelled school is not surveying the neighborhood from its roof and we see no letup in the heavy land and have been bottom and the manager of the hospital tells me that every day including today the hospital is hit by shrapnel the fear here is a repeat of thursday's tragedy in the last three days i would schools have been attacked four times twice in. gaza. and the
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first no one was injured the second day we sent a team from to investigate the incident and we agreed with days of our lives that we should have a window of time of two hours from nine eleven. all of the sudden thirty this show this school activist and surgeon dr mads gilbert is adamant that palestinians have been failed by international institutions drove this war where are the leaders of the world who are supposed to have some sort of global governance and upholding the international law the palestinian people today can sum up that they are totally unprotected by international law by the great powers by the un by i.c.r.c. by anybody who are actually responsible to safeguard the lawful rights of individuals to be protected in returns. even the last action leaving families to their fate and the united nations struggling to find enough shelter as the
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rocket store sense casualty numbers chillingly high perry fear in gaza. please stay with us here on r.t. still to come for you this hour a british journalist is deported from ukraine after spending three days in detention after a short break we'll hear how graham phillips recalled his experience at the hands of ukraine security forces who he claims threatened his life. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford. to different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pins tear jerking poetry keep. nora's. we
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post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook you speak what i think is happening in the last days sad people essentially believing in this world when they believe that you know that me to be unfair and a tactic that they simply don't realize when propaganda is being parts of town we need to go by beyond that and actually gauge with the ideas in the information that is presented as well and confront that information and i think that's something that as you mentioned before not everything is black and white not everything isn't taken is taken and the more that we can be i guess an open open minded con a source of information regardless of the source i think we're all going to be the . government system is to help poor people who are women but you can only change the life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out
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this week to u.k. journalist and r.t. contributor graham phillips he was detained in ukraine by security forces held in captivity for three days and then kicked out and barred from the country for thirty years he told us what else he had to go through jury in his detention. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all these fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to you who is this person how do you know this person was put in a room next to an artillery position that they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cellar was detained along with another journalist for deal he was beaten in front of me i saw soldiers you know kick him in the face and then a soldier said if you can confirm my details and he couldn't guarantee that i was going to live i was blindfolded we were kept in a cell without water or toilet facilities and then we were separated i was interrogated i was interrogated all day i was called
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a terrorist and i was told i had a russian passport i was a russian spy they were telling me all day that i had entered ukraine through ukraine and entered it through russia it's all completely completely false they were accusing me of working for terrorists all these accusations and interrogations and then they took my computer they took my things and i've just go are just recently been released and i was on the train to warsaw coming from the polish border and i just recently discovered that the now all of my accounts have been hacked i want you to recount my e-mail account my you tube account which is obviously money in livelihood someone's deleted two thousand videos from back to every single account i have facebook contact the time that ukrainian forces have had my computer it was held by the s.p. use well they've taken that they've stripped all the passwords so i've basically been cyber attacks and i've despite and now to try and get my life back i mean being kicked out of the country of ukraine my car was taken by the ukrainian military my money was taken my.
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